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O'Reilly Open Source Convention
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StatusActive
GenreIT
CountryUSA
Inaugurated1999
Organized byO'Reilly Media
Websitewww.oscon.com
Robin Hanson at OSCON 2007
Overview of OSCON 2009

The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) is an annual convention for the discussion of free and open source software. It is organized by the publisher O'Reilly Media and is held each summer in the United States.

History edit

The first OSCON was held in 1999.[1] [2] The first Perl Conference took place in 1997.

Notable events edit

  • OSCON grew out of The Perl Conference, but the amount of Perl content has continued to decline year over year.
  • The OpenOffice.org open source project was announced at the 2000 conference in Monterey.[3]
  • The OpenStack open source project was launched at the 2010 conference.[4]
  • OSCON has been the host to Larry Wall's State of the Onion keynotes.

Locations edit

Year Location Date
2014 Portland, OR July 20–24, 2014
2013 Portland, OR July 22–26, 2013
2012 Portland, OR July 16–20, 2012
2011 Portland, OR July 25–29, 2011
2010 Portland, OR July 19–23, 2010
2009 San Jose, CA July 20–24, 2009
2008 Portland, OR July 21–25, 2008
2007 Portland, OR July 23–27, 2007
2006 Portland, OR July 24–28, 2006
2005 Portland, OR August 1–5, 2005
2004 Portland, OR July 26–30, 2004
2003 Portland, OR July 7–11, 2003
2002 San Diego, CA July 22–26, 2002
2001 San Diego, CA July 22–26, 2001
2000 Monterey, CA July 17–20, 2000[5]
1999 Monterey, CA August 21–24, 1999[1][2]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b "OSCON Celebrates 10th Year: Annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention Opens Registration and Announces Program". 2008-04-15. Retrieved 2013-03-04.
  2. ^ a b "Perl Foundation Conferences". YAPC.
  3. ^ Phipps, Simon (18 October 2006). "Birthday Presents". Blogs.Sun.Com. Sun Microsystems. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
  4. ^ "OpenStack Launch Bash". O'Reilly Media. 20 July 2010. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
  5. ^ Guido van Rossum (2000-01-27). "Call for Participation: Open Source Convention in Monterey (July)". python.org.

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